Here's Mariah Halverson.

If it is Christ in me and no longer I who live,

what does that mean? I still have this breath in my lungs,

so I will actually do anything for you, Lord.

Welcome to the Reviver Hearts Podcast. It's December 12, 2023.

I'm Dana Gresch, and our host is the author of Born a Child and Yet a King, Nancy Demas Walgamuth.

What sound effect would best describe the level of fruit bearing in your life.

Hmm, are you like the fruitful tree described in Psalm 1?

It's planted by streams of water.

And it yields its fruit in its season.

Or are you more like the plant described in Jeremiah Chapter 17 a shrub in the desert.

Hey Rebecca, what does a desert sound like?

Can you find a sound that's really dry and sandy? Jeremiah 17 goes on to say that this shrub shall not see any good come.

This person will dwell in the parched places of the wilderness in an uninhabited salt land.

Well, the truth is, we all start out as shrubs in the desert.

The young woman we heard from yesterday knew her life was useless and dead.

Mariah grew up in a loving Christian home and a good church, but our family

background, our church background, can't save us.

She shared yesterday that as soon as she was away from home, she headed straight down a road

to addiction, identity crisis, and panic attacks.

But praise God, we're about to hear how God's spirit breathed life into that dead soul.

And there's a really fun PS to Mariah's story too.

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